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Moritz Rösch
Education
M.Sc., Applied Earth Observation and Geoanalysis
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
12/2023 - 10/2021
- Final grade: 1,0
B.Sc., Geography
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
09/2021 - 10/2017
- Specialization: Remote Sensing, Physical Geography
- Final grade: 1,3
- Member of the Geography Student Council (internal organization, treasurer, first semester advising, institute communication, organization of events and lecture series)
Research and work experience
Master-Thesis
Team Information Systems and Geomatics - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Weßling, Germany
11/2023 - 05/2023
- Thesis-Title: Daily spread prediction of European wildfires based on historical burned area time series from Earth observation data using a spatio-temporal graph neural network
- Development of a data-driven modeling framework to predict the spread of wildfires in Europe
- Application and test of spatio-temporal Graph Neural Network to predict daily burnt areas using historical remote sensing products and environmental data
Intern
Team Information Systems and Geomatics - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Weßling, Germany
03/2023 - 01/2023
- Establish a database for analyzing historic forest fire activity from 2016-2022 in Europe based on a discrete H3 grid system
- Processing and combination of fire-relevant data sources on a S3 cloud storage and automated generation of daily updating datasets for individual wildfires
Intern
RSS - Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH
München, Germany
12/2022 - 10/2022
- Development of an automated processing pipeline for mapping bare soil areas at regional scale using Sentinel-2 time series
- Modeling soil organic carbon content at regional scale based on spectral bare soil composite and LUCAS reference data
Research assistant project “Megacities”
Team City and Society - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Chair of English Linguistics
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
09/2022 - 04/2022
- Analyzing sociocultural structures in megacities using the spatial distribution of Twitter data
- Cleaning and processing of Tweets from different European countries
- Application of geostatistical and linguistic methods
Bachlor-Thesis
Team Natural Hazards - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Remote
07/2021 - 04/2021
- Thesis-Title: Monitoring of volcanic natural hazards in Indonesia. Change analyses based on high-resolution PlanetScope data combined with further Earth observation data (in German)
- Develop new methods for mapping volcanic natural hazards (e.g., lava) based on high-resolution PlanetScope data, infrared data (Sentinel-2, Landsat-8, Terra/Aqua MODIS, Soumi-NPP VIIRS), and digital elevation models
Student assistant project “AgriSens”
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
02/2021 - 04/2020
- Collaboration in the development of an Open Data Cube (ODC) infrastructure
- Co-development of a Python package for processing multitemporal satellite data on the ODC platform
- Development of training and tutorial Jupyter notebooks for spatiotemporal analysis of geospatial data on the ODC platform
Student assistant (tutor)
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
02/2021 - 10/2018
- Direction and preparation of the tutorials for the lecture Introduction to Geographic Remote Sensing and Application of Remote Sensing in Geography
Intern
Institute for Earth Observation
Eurac research
Bolzano, Italy
03/2020 - 01/2020
- Evaluation of high-resolution PlanetScope data for applications in alpine regions
- Development of classification workflows for the mapping of mountain pine in South Tyrol
- Satellite-based monitoring of pest infestation and forest vitality
Intern
Team Natural Hazards - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Weßling, Germany
12/2019 - 10/2019
- Satellite-based volcano monitoring using thermal and infrared data
- Development of automated scripts for the calculation of erupted lava volume
Student assistant project “LandKlif”
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
09/2019 - 05/2019
- Planning drone field campaign and taking aerial photos
- Processing of digital terrain models and orthophotos
Research interests
Passive & active remote sensing
Spatial data science
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
GIS & webmap
Natural hazards
Wildfires
Volcanoes
Alpine regions
Forest ecosystems
Climate change
Publications
Franke, J.; Rösch, M.; Wiedemann, W.; Ließ, M.; Reyes Millalon, J. A. (2023). S2SOCmonit -Sentinel-2 based bare soil spectral compositing for soil organic carbon estimation. BonaRes Repository. https://doi.org/10.20387/bonares-xbqw-r296
Rösch, M.; Sonnenschein, R.; Buchelt, S.; Ullmann, T. (2022). Comparing PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 imagery for mapping mountain pines in the Sarntal Alps, Italy. Remote Sensing, 14, 3190. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14133190
Rösch, M.; Plank, S. (2022). Detailed Mapping of Lava and Ash Deposits at Indonesian Volcanoes by Means of VHR PlanetScope Change Detection. Remote Sensing, 14, 1168. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051168
Conference contributions
Rösch, M.; Plank, S. (2022). Combining VHR PlanetScope imagery, HR short-wave infrared data and digital elevation models for mapping of lava flow deposits. Poster. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, 23.05. - 27.05.2022, Bonn, Germany.
Skills
Coding
R, Python (advanced)
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GIS / Remote Sensing Software
QGIS, ArcGIS, ENVI (advanced)
Google Earth Engine (advanced)
SNAP, eCognition (intermediate)
GRASS GIS, SAGA GIS (basic)
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Database / Cloud
PostgreSQL, PostGIS (basic)
AWS S3 (basic)
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Version Control
Git, GitHub, GitLab (advanced)
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Other Software
MS Office (advanced)
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Languages
German
Native language
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English
fluent in spoken and written
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French
school knowledge
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Further education
SAR EDU summer school for applied radar remote sensing
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Jena, Germany
09/2019
- five-day seminar (40 hours)
Made with the R package datadrivencv and pagedown.
The source code is available on GitHub.
Last updated on 2023-12-18.